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Jun. 25, 2009

Most art colleges in Berlin Germany are reportedly switching over to the Linux operating system.

Overall, the productivity software on most workstations has already been swapped for free alternative products as part of a long-term project that began in early December 2006.

The MIS team at Service Center IT is now responsible for the migration at three art colleges:

The Hanns Eisler music college

The Ernst Busch drama college

The Berlin-Weissensee art college

The colleges are all hoping for an easy migration, as users will be able to keep on working with their familiar applications. Beginning next week, their workstations will switch to Ubuntu Linux and their servers will use the Debian flavour.

The change-over is being done at this time simply because the existing hardware cannot be upgraded to Windows Vista or Windows 7.

The art colleges would have had to spend over $16,500 to acquire newer computers and pay additional licence fees for Windows.

The money that they've saved is now going to be spent on teaching, which is their real mandate.

As part of the switch to Linux, all colleges are also developing platform-independent software to manage teaching and working contracts.

The open source application is being licensed under the GPLv3 and, after its completion, will be available to all college students and teachers.

Source: OS Review.

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